A factual economic theory, beyond finance: the case of Dona Grácia Mendes (Nasi)

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Eduardo Manuel de Almeida Leite
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4109-3122
Carlos Machado-Santos
Amélia Ferreira da Silva
Ricardo Jorge Silva
José Manuel Pereira
Helena Maria Santos de Oliveira
Ana Paiva

Abstract





This essay addresses the business and challenges that entrepreneurs face in the daily lives of their business activities, far beyond numbers. Indeed, behind the business there is a set of facts that are certainly reflected financially in the companies, but are not susceptible to be captured, much less evaluated by the quantitative theories of business analysis, given that their origin is not economic, nor financial. Thus, in the present essay a case analysis is made of one of the most enterprising and notable women of the time of the Portuguese maritime explorations. Through its case and through an alternative analysis of the financial, psychological and sociological social facts, it is possible to illustrate that the business evidences financial difficulties, they fall into decline and are lost, but the causes of these losses are social and not financial, as we might conclude at first instance.





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Leite, E. M. de A., Carlos Machado-Santos, Ferreira da Silva, A., Silva, R. J., Pereira, J. M. ., Santos de Oliveira, H. M. ., & Paiva , A. (2020). A factual economic theory, beyond finance: the case of Dona Grácia Mendes (Nasi). E3 - Revista De Economia, Empresas E Empreendedores Na CPLP, 5(2), 61–70. https://doi.org/10.29073/e3.v5i2.249
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Eduardo Manuel de Almeida Leite, Universidade da Madeira

Universidade da Madeira; CiTUR – Centro de Investigação, Desenvolvimento e Inovação em Turismo.

Carlos Machado-Santos, UTAD

Full Professor of Finance

UTAD University, Vila Real, Portugal

Department of Economics, Sociology and Management

Research Centre for the Study of Population, Economics and Society

Amélia Ferreira da Silva, CEOS.PP – Centre for Social and Organizational Studies of P. Porto

CEOS.PP – Centre for Social and Organizational Studies of P. Porto

Porto Accounting and Business School

Rua Jaime Lopes Amorim, s/n

4465-004 S. Mamede de Infesta

Matosinhos – Portugal

Ricardo Jorge Silva, Professor and researcher at CEOS.PP – Centre for Social and Organizational Studies of P. Porto; Porto Accounting and Business School

Professor and researcher at CEOS.PP – Centre for Social and Organizational Studies of P. Porto; Porto Accounting and Business School

José Manuel Pereira, IPCA - Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal

PhD in Financial Economics and Accounting, University of Vigo
Associate Professor 
IPCA - Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal

CICF – Research Centre on Accounting and Taxation

Campus do IPCA – Barcelos

Vila Frescaínha S. Martinho

4750-810 BARCELOS

Helena Maria Santos de Oliveira, ISCAP/IPP – School of Accounting and Administration, Polytechnic of Porto

PhD in Financial Economics and Accounting, University of Vigo
Associate Professor and Financial Consultant
ISCAP/IPP – School of Accounting and Administration, Polytechnic of Porto

CEOS.PP – Centre for Organizational and Social Studies of P. Porto

CEPESE – Center for the Study of Population, Economics and Society
R. Jaime Lopes Amorim
4465-004 S. Mamede de Infesta

 

Ana Paiva , Centre of Population, Economy and Society Studies (CEPESE) and Centre of Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures of the University of Lisbon’s

Ph.D in Sociology and Assistant Professor at Aberta University. The author has been studying and teaching sociological theories for two decades, including at University of Minho and Portuguese Catholic University. Ana Paiva is a researcher

member of Centre of Population, Economy and Society Studies (CEPESE) and Centre of Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures of the University of Lisbon’s

Humanities Faculty (CLEPUL).